DHS, FBI Warn of North Korea 'Hidden Cobra' Strikes Against US Assets

United States top cybersecurity cops warned Tuesday that North Korean government threat actors are targeting U.S. businesses with malware and botnet-related attacks that are part of concerted effort dubbed “Hidden Cobra.” According to a United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team US-CERT...

US Warns of 'DeltaCharlie' – A North Korean DDoS Botnet Malware

The United States government has released a rare alert about an ongoing, eight-year-long North Korean state-sponsored hacking operation. The joint report from the FBI and U.S. Department of Homeland Security DHS provided details on "DeltaCharlie," a malware variant used by "Hidden Cobra" hacking...

A week in security (Jun 05 – Jun 11)

Last week, we interviewed our very own Pieter Arntz to get to know him a little better. We also touched on the importance of HTTPS and focused on a new social engineering scheme that triggers on mouse movement. We also took a deeper look at LatentBot, a Trojan that is being distributed by the RIG...

Nextcloud: ci.nextcloud.com: CVE-2015-5477 BIND9 TKEY Vulnerability + Exploit (Denial of Service)

Hello Team NextCloud, In reference report 217381 I've reported the DDOS attack via DNS Port at OwnCloud.. And it was successfully patched. But now same issue I got at ci.nextcloud.com Proof Of Concept: Here it is the nmap result of ci.nextcloud.com NMap Scan Results: Starting Nmap 7.40...

Following the Money Hobbled vDOS Attack-for-Hire Service

A new report proves the value of following the money in the fight against dodgy cybercrime services known as "booters" or "stressers" -- virtual hired muscle that can be rented to knock nearly any website offline. Last fall, two 18-year-old Israeli men were arrested for allegedly running vDOS,...

Run HTTP Flood DDoS Attacks: Wreckuests

Stress Testing: Run HTTP Flood DDoS Attacks Wreckuests is a script, which allows you to run DDoS attacks with HTTP-floodGET/POST. It’s written in pure Python and uses proxy-servers as “bots”. This script is published for educational purposes only! Features Cache bypass with random ?abcd=efg...

Anti-DDoS Solution Based on iptables: nShield

Anti-DDoS Solution Based on iptables An Easy and Simple Anti-DDoS solution for VPS, Dedicated Servers and IoT devices based on iptables Requirements Linux System with python, iptables Nginx Will be installed automatically by install.sh Quickstart cd /home/ && git clone...

The media player can lead to millions of systems suffer from subtitles attack-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Experts pointed out that, as long as the attacker can make the target user in which a vulnerable media player to open a malicious subtitle file will be able to fully control the device. For automatically from the Internet to get the caption of the application, without any user interaction it can...

Trump's Top Cybersecurity Boss Talks Priorities

BOSTON–Citing Mirai and WannaCry as recent examples, Rob Joyce, special assistant to the president and cyber security coordinator for the White House, said the global landscape of cyber threats can’t be ignored and the U.S. needs to sharpen its defenses when it comes to fending off attacks. “If y...

DDoS Attacks against DNS Infrastructure in the News

DNS-based DDoS attacks have gained mindshare among Akamai customers lately, most recently with last year's Dyn attacks written about on the Akamai Blog here and here and this week's attack against Cedexis. DNS infrastructure is a ripe target for malicious actors hoping to disrupt a digital...

Trump Signs Cybersecurity Executive Order

President Trump today signed a long-delayed cybersecurity executive order that prioritizes the protection of federal networks and critical industries, and instructs agency heads to implement the NIST Framework for Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity. The order was to be signed in late...

Glaring Vulnerabilities Make Many Commercial Drones 'Insecure by Design'

Drones, many readily available on ecommerce shops such as Amazon, are plagued by vulnerabilities that could give attackers full root access to the device, read or delete files, or crash the device. The United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team US-CERT published a warning about one model, th...

DDoS Attacks Can Cost Businesses Up to $2.5M Per Attack, Report Says

The time to respond and mitigate DDoS attacks can be costly for companies, and some businesses can lose roughly $2.5 million on average per attack, a research report released today said. Neustar, an analytics firm that sees swathes of DDoS attack telemetry daily, boiled down some of the figures i...

EulerOS 2.0 SP2 : ntp (EulerOS-SA-2017-1024)

According to the versions of the ntp packages installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities : - It was found that when ntp is configured with rate limiting for all associations the limits are also applied to responses received from its...

EulerOS 2.0 SP1 : ntp (EulerOS-SA-2017-1023)

According to the versions of the ntp packages installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities : - It was found that when ntp is configured with rate limiting for all associations the limits are also applied to responses received from its...

Low Risk Threat: DDoS Extortion Letters

Summary Adversaries calling themselves the Lizard Squad have been sending businesses extortion letters, demanding payment in bitcoin to prevent a Distributed Denial of Service DDoS or other attack against their applications. These letters have been sent to businesses across the globe and across...

The Time Has Arrived to Embrace Hackers

BOSTON—More than ever, hackers are getting a welcoming embrace from law enforcement, governments and business. Bug bounties and vulnerability disclosure programs are becoming the norm across industry, and hackers are no longer universally viewed as a pariah. Simultaneously, however, groups such a...

Hajime ‘Vigilante Botnet’ Growing Rapidly; Hijacks 300,000 IoT Devices Worldwide

Last week, we reported about a so-called 'vigilante hacker' who hacked into at least 10,000 vulnerable 'Internet of Things' devices, such as home routers and Internet-connected cameras, using a botnet malware in order to supposedly secure them. Now, that vigilante hacker has already trapped rough...

Beware! New Android Malware Infected 2 Million Google Play Store Users

Initially thought to be 600,000 users, the number of Android users who have mistakenly downloaded and installed malware on their devices straight from Google Play Store has reached 2 Million. Yes, about 2 Million Android users have fallen victim to malware hidden in over 40 fake companion guide...

UK Man Gets Two Years in Jail for Running ‘Titanium Stresser’ Attack-for-Hire Service

A 20-year-old man from the United Kingdom was sentenced to two years in prison today after admitting to operating and selling access to "Titanium Stresser," a simple-to-use service that let paying customers launch crippling online attacks against Web sites and individual Internet users. Adam Mudd...